Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-05-12
pAkoTAITEMs.

The waiter girls of an Aberdeen
hotel are uniformed.
The Rapid City wheelmen are organ
izing a bicycle club.
St. Lawrence will appropriately OBJ
serve decoration day.
The farmers of Hughes county have
organized an alliance.
License carried in Bridgewater, Nc
Cook county, by one vote.
Sioux Falls has raised the $4,000
guaranty for the Duluth line.
"a road from Omaha and bridge"
is the watchword at Yankton.
Saloon licenses at Bismarck have
been fixed at $500, payable in advance.
Sioux Falls will build the thirteenth
church for that city this summer.
A new charter and a system Of sew
erage are engaging attention at Aber-
deem.
Sturgis City people are jubilant oyer
the prospect of securing railroad this
season.
The postotfice at Starr has been dis
continued, and mail for that Office sent
to Ethan.
The county seat contest in Brown
county, between Aberdeen and Colum-
hia woyaS warm
Two dwelling houses were burned
down at Aberdeen on Saturday, involv-
ing a loss of about 81, 600.
Lightning killed horse and stunned
the hired man Of w. j. Anderson, near
Grand Forks, on the 81 inst.
The people of Fort Pierre are great
ly dissatisfied over the discontinuance
of the postoflice at that point.
A business mems association has been
organized at st. Lawrence, and an ef-
fort will be made to boom the town.
A party of fifteen Russian families
are to going from southern Dakota to
join the Salem colony in Morton county.
A "citizens" and peoples" ticket
contested tor municipal honors in Mil
Ter, part Of each ticket being elected.
Twenty families from Maine and
Vermont have reached Hittenger coun-
ty, in north Dakota, where they locate.
at the Woonsocket town election the
prohibitionists won complete and
sweeping victory, and the saloons will
remain closed.
The Mayor Of Fargo requires the
policemen of the city to wear good
clothes, keep sober and keep out of
saloons while on duty.
At a meeting of the democratic CEN
tral committee of Kingsbury county,
Ambrose Mullen, of Manchester, re-
ceived their Endorsement for the De-
Smet postoffice.
John NJ. Horan, foreman of the Mil
waukee shops at Yankton, was few
days ago presented with $500 watch,
chain and charm by his fellow en-
ployes.
Engineers of the Northwestern are
cross-sectioning north of Rapid City,
and it is said the road will rest at
Whitewood next winter, about forty
five miles northwest of Rapid City.
A party of railroad surveyors are
running line toward Rapid City from
the south, and there is much specula-
tion in the town named as to what
company the mysterious party repre-
sents.
Cass county is to hold a convention
at Casselton on the 18th to canvass the
subject of local option, to be voted up
on in November. A warm fight is
anticipated in Cass county over the
proposition.
Bricklayers in ankton receive $3.50
as dav's wages and there is not an
idle man in the city. The season is yet
early, and there is still much to be
done, so tnat the workers will have a
| prosperous season.
The adjusting agent tor the North
western road has been through Kings
| bury county and settled with the farm
ers in full, paying out over 5000 for
losses that the farmers suffered by the
great fire of few weeks ago
A petition is being circulated at De-
Smet and universally signed, asking
the governor to pardon Mrs. Bunchie
sentenced at the last term OF court to
pay a fine of $500 and costs, for man.
slaughter in the second degree.
A Chicago man named John Dona.
hue a few weeks ago went to Lead City
with considerable money, intending to
invest in ranch or other property, but
instead he invested in so much whisky
that he finally got snakes in his boots
and was lodged in Jail.
Mrs. Carrie Olsen, who lived with
her husband, Saunders Olsen, near
Highmore, was last Wednesday found
dead in bed. at the coroner's inquest
a son of the woman testified that his
mother was in the habit of taking a
drink of whisky or bitters when not
feeling well, and that the stimulant
was usually kept in trunk. The man
admits having put whisky in the trunk
in which strychnine was dissolved, but
says he intended it for gophers and tc
poison dog with. 1t further appeared
| that Olson was angry with hie wifi